Ian MacAllen is the author of Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American (Rowman & Littlefield, April 2022). His writing has appeared in Chicago Review of Books, Southern Review of Books, The Offing, 45th Parallel Magazine, Little Fiction, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and elsewhere. He tweets @IanMacAllen and is online at IanMacAllen.com.
Indie bookstores across the country are wrapping storefronts in an anti-Amazon protest. A Philadelphia bookstore staged a sit-in after receiving racist emails. Local booksellers are struggling for many reasons, but…